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Other words for D: Definition, Democracy, Dialectic, Duty
Summary: A woman has no opinions except those of the men she's with.
Bonus: Wessels
Commentary: I 100% picked this one just to read some Chekov. It's weird to see someone using "sent to Siberia" unironically, it's become such a joke for us.
"please don’t butt in! It’s really annoying!" sounds very modern for the rest of the story. Probably just a translation quirk.
It's interesting to read a story from a long time a go and another culture (it's interesting in and of itself to have a Russian story in a "Western" anthology) about codependency. I something I think of as more modern (the word doesn't really exist until the early 80s). I've said before that this is one of my favorite parts of reading these selections, seeing how issues we think are new actually existed for years and in other places. 2/5 Good story, but not a must read or anything.
I'm grateful for having Desires. Sometimes it's hard to muster them, but life is better when you do.
I haven't read Chekov. I agree that the modern wording is probably a translation issue. When I read a book I enjoy that's been translated, I'm not sure who to praise, the author or the translator!
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